Uris, Leon Filmography

• Topaz
  1969, role: writer
• Korkusuzlar
  1965, role: writer
• Exodus
  1960, role: writer
• Israel
  1959, role: producer
• Israel
  1959, role: writer
• The Angry Hills
  1959, role: writer
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  1957, role: writer
• Battle Cry
  1955, role: writer
• Battle Cry
  1955, role: writer

Famous quotes by Leon Uris:

"[She said the book that changed her life was] Exodus ... a sense of identification."

"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."

"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."

"I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish."

"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."

"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."

"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."

"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."

"I do not write for an audience."

"I essentially write for myself."

"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."

"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."

"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."

"I was a terrible English student."

"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."

"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."

"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."

"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Freight Train Blues - Lynn Morris
• Wishful Thinking - Lynn Morris
• Fantasy - Lian Ross
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul - Lian Ross
• Say You'll Never - Lian Ross
• Scratch My Name - Lian Ross

I was born in dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train was comin' I had to cry,
Hummin all the drivers with my lullaby
I've got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin'
shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Baby don't you know
It looks like I'm never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Well, my daddy was a fireman in a house out here
She was the only daughter of the engineer
Sweetheart of the brakeman, that ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Oh mama don't you know
It looks like I'm never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Well, the only thing that makes you laugh again
Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train
Ev'ry place I want to go
I never go because you know
Because I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin'

Wishing I could see you again, dear
That the fires of love could burn once more
But I know that's just wishful thinking
And too much to be wishing for
Just thinking of how you once kissed me
Wishing that it hadn't meant goodbye
But I know that's just wishful thinking
Now I know why some people cry
I'll live my life in dreams and long for your love
It's you I'm wishing for and you I'm thinking of
My heart echoes the love words you've spoken
How I wish that I could hear them from you
Won't you answer a heart that's broken
And make my wishful thinking come true
Wishing I could see you again, dear
That the fires of love could burn once more
But I know that's just wishful thinking
And too much to be wishing for
I'll live my life in dreams and long for your love
It's you I'm wishing for and you I'm thinking of
My heart echoes the love words you've spoken
Now I wish that I could hear them from you
Won't you answer a heart that's broken
And make my wishful thinking come true

High up in the skies much miles away
lived a very special man.
One night in my dreams I heard him say he'll be coming to this land.
Distant lover
King of Galaxy
welcome to my world of fantasy!
Come into my world of mystery
welcome home to me!
I woke up into a big surprise: stars were falling from the skies.
I've been happy since that day
I woke up to hear him say -
distand lover
King of Galaxy
welcome to my world of fantasy!...
Fantasy - fantasy -
Distand lover
King of Galaxy

Deep in my heart - there's a fire - a burning heart
Deep in my heart - there's desire - for a start
I'm dying in emotion
It's my world in fantasy
I'm living in my, living in my dreams
You're my heart, you're my soul
I keep it shining everywhere I go
You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll be holding you forever
Stay with you together
You're my heart, you're my soul
Yeah, a feeling that our love will grow
You're my heart, you're my soul
That's the only thing I really know
Let's close the door and believe my burning heart
Feeling allright, come on, open up your heart
I'll keep the candles burning
Let your body melt in mine

Look into my eyes and tell me what you see
If this meant to show one say it's mystery
Since the day I met you baby I can feel
Deep inside my heart I know it's real
You have turned my dreams into reality
Baby not my hunter, you're sweet melody
It's the same old feeling baby, it's so real
Deep inside my heart I know it's real
Say you'll never, never, never go away
Say you'll never, never, never never go away
Yesterday my life was just a history
Now I feel like mastering my destiny
It's the same old feeling baby, it's so real
Deep inside my heart I know it's real
Say you'll never, never, never go away

When no one else is there to give a helpin hand ,
and you can feel the need for one who understands.
When you can find the key to things you demand.
When you're all alone and you don't feel so fine ,
and no one else is there to suit your worried mind.
When everything you do keeps falling out of line.
Chorus x2
Scratch my name on the wall
Use my name when you fall.
When you're down , you have no fear.
Where is it? yeh...I'll be there.
Call my name , just get the message through.